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FAA Air Traffic Organization - Terminal Programs

The Federal Aviation Administration's Terminal Services provide air traffic control services for aircraft flying in and out of the nation's airports.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The Air Traffic Organization-Terminal program has a clear purpose and resources are used directly and effectively to meet the program's purpose.
  • The program has ambitious and meaningful long-term goals for increasing safety and capacity. The program has achieved most of its long-term and annual performance targets for FY2006, but needs to demonstrate improved efficiencies and cost effectiveness.
  • The program needs to improve its management of major capital acquisition and construction projects by better use of financial management standards and earned value management.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Ensuring all major capital acquisition programs achieve compliance with American National Standards Institute standards.
  • Developing a plan for improving the management of major capital construction projects, including business case analysis and more systematic use of earned value management.
  • Supporting the development of common measures to compare performance between International Air Traffic Service Providers.

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